The myth of the Jewish race / Raphael Patai and Jennifer Patai Wing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patai, Raphael, 1910-1996.

Patai, Jennifer, 1942- author.

Contributor:

Mazal Holocaust Collection

Library of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews.

Penn Provenance:

Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (donor)

Physical Description:

x, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, [1975]

Summary:

Compiles historical, psychological, and genetic evidence relating to past and contemporary Jewish populations and intra-Jewish ethnic differences, concluding that there is no such thing as a distinct and separate Jewish race.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Racism and slavery

Racism and anti-Semitism

Pre-racist anti-Semitism

Race as a genetic concept

Race and culture

Part I. Historical. Four views on the Jewish "race"

Jews constitute one single race

Jews comprise two distinct races

Jews comprise three races

Jews are not a separate racial group

An excursus into statistics

Introductory remarks

Benjamin of Tudela

Medieval Spain

England

France

Italy

Germany

Hungary

Bohemia

Poland, Lithuania, Russia

Sum totals

Conclusion

Proselytism

Extent and evaluation

In Biblical times

The Second Commonwealth and Hellenism

The Talmudic Period: Palestine and Babylonia

In pre-Islamic Arabia and North Africa

Under Islam

The Khazars

Early medieval Christendom

Spain and Portugal

Sweden

Poland

Russia

Intermarriage and interbreeding

In the Second Commonwealth

In Talmudic times

Under early Christianity

In the Muslim world

Medieval Europe

Modern times

Slavery and concubinage

In Biblical and Talmudic times

In the Muslim east

In Muslim and Christian Spain

In the Ashkenazi world

Jus Primae Noctis

Part II. Psychological. The Jewish mind

The problem of comparative intelligence

Jewish general intelligence

Jews and genius

Special talents

Character traits

Part III. Genetic. Morphological traits

Height

Hair and eye color

Nose

Cephalic index

Hand clasping and arm folding

Fingerprint patterns

Conclusions

Looking Jewish

Criteria for classification of races

Jewish inbreeding and its effects

The "Jewish" blood: ABO

The "Jewish" blood: other blood groups

Serum and red cell proteins

Haptoglobin (Hp

Group-Specific component (Gc)

Serum Pseudocholinesterase (PCE)

Red cell acid phosphatase (PGM1)

Adenosine Deaminase (ADA)

Adenylate Kinase (AK)

Red cell Glutamic-Pyruvic Transaminase (GPT)

Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase deficiency

PTC taste sensitivity

Color blindness

Genetic distance between Jewish and non-Jewish groups

"Jewish" diseases

Rare inherited diseases unusually frequent or infrequent among Ashkenazi Jews

Inherited diseases found in Oriental and Sephardi Jews

Common inherited diseases: Thalassemia

Common diseases with a genetic component

Conclusions to Part III

APPENDIX: Diagrams and tables

Notes

Glossary

Index

Picture supplement following p. 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1976

National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish History, Winner, 1976

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by the Board of Governors of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth.

Other Format:

Online version: Patai, Raphael, 1910-1996. Myth of the Jewish race.

ISBN:

0684139065

9780684139067

OCLC:

979249